Articles relating to: James Foley

WASHINGTON — One of the more dangerous al-Qaeda offshoots in the Middle East region, the one operating in Yemen known as the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (acronym AQAP), said it will not use beheadings as a part of their tactics. Reuters reported that the group’s leader, Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, banned the use of […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Security Agency chief Admiral Mike Rogers said that his agency is watching the electronic activities of the Sunni Muslim terrorist group known as the Islamic State, ISIS or ISIL. Reuters reported the NSA chief’s remarks were made during a cybersecurity conference in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. In his remarks, he said, […]

WASHINGTON — In trying to avoid another ground war in Iraq, the Obama administration is struggling to convince local Iraqi leaders in Iraq to fight the Islamic State terrorists. This is a continued struggle even with the U.S. indicating it will use its air force to strategically decimate the terrorist group, which controls large swaths […]

Al Jazeera Arabic, the sister network of Al Jazeera English, removed a story published on its website last week that questioned the “legitimacy” of the videos showing the execution of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, calling them a “Hollywood” fabrication. According to Al Arabiya News, the story suggested that Foley likely fabricated the video […]

WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of the brutal beheading of American journalist James Foley, the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar is working to free other captured American hostages. Foley was executed, and whose execution was recorded on video, by the extremist and Islamist terrorist group Islamic State, also known by the acronyms ISIS, ISIL and […]

WASHINGTON — This is not a joke, but a Reuters “two-time Pulitzer Prize” winning journalist David Rohde asked if the U.S.’s stance on ransoms led to the brutal beheading death of U.S. journalist James Foley. A video made by the radical Islamist militants Islamic State (known as IS, ISIS or ISIL) showed Foley being beheaded […]